THE VAULT OF ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Voting Thread (voting closes May 9 *~*~*~*2012*~*~*~*)

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I saw Testament on PBS when it was new. It was OK; it's not horror. It's not "top" material list, except maybe Top Jane Alexander Films.

She sorta vanished after becoming SAG prez, no?

my first pass has 123 movies, yikes. time to get out the scissors. and the butcher's knife. and the axe. and the scythe. and the chainsaw.

Jane does tons of theatre, always has. You remember theatre, tha thing nobody goes to.

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I only meant movies since that's the poll; she's a Living Legend onstage.

Jane Alexander missed her window of opportunity to be the next Linnea Quigley.

Taking my time. I appreciate a slow heart sinking reveal as much as a quick scream out loud scare.

I also regret not participating in the nomination stage :(

Will survive

what would you have nommed that isnt there? i could be convinced to do some write-ins (although its not like i need more movies on my shortlist but whatever)

no wicker man 2

haha i still haven't seen cowboys for jesus!! can you believe that?

anyway let me collect my thoughts (i am enlisting a lurker as well) and will post when i have a list

for instance, is whoever slew auntie roo? on there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLdTFQ9RGU

Shelley Winters plays an eccentric widow who loves her children to death. A modern retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story.

I had a list of around 15 films I was about to nom when the voting opened

That reminds me of the existence of What's the Matter with Helen? Not that I remember if it's good or not but I think it's in the same vein?
There were actually a number of things I was thinking of nominating but didn't for some reason or another. Some of them got nominated but other people, some didn't.

the only thing on the missing list I thought I would've voted for was burnt offerings, but looking at my ballot now it didn't have a chance tbh

What's the Matter with Helen?

B- psychobiddy

I have this at home but haven't watched either one.

http://content9.flixster.com/movie/11/12/36/11123615_det.jpg

Hag horror! I love it.

Was going to mention What's the Matter with Helen next!!! I think it's better than Auntie Roo by a pretty wide margin.

Neither are as good as Baby Jane -- not even Charlotte -- but for color + splashy + crazy old ladies, you can't go wrong with Helen or Roo.

and don't forget mark lester as a murdering preteen sociopath in night hair child, possibly the best name for a film ever

Which is a good time to mention a dreadful TV movie that scared me silly in the early '70s: The Devil's Daughter, with Shelly in the Ruth Gordon role.

http://cdn100.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/383/583/548/the-devil-s-daughter-1973-dvd-shelley-winters-rare-d916a.jpg

Abe Vigoda!

Watched Marebito last night on jjjusten's recommendation. It's a low-budget Japanese horror film by Takashi Shimizu, director of both the Japanese and American vesions of Ju-On/The Grudge, and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo, the Iron Man and its sequels. Pretty great! I don't know that it's a masterpiece, but it reminded me a lot of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films like Cure and Pulse, spliced together with Tsukamoto's punk experimentalism, Shimizu's finely-honed creepiness, and lots of nods to Lovecraftian pulp horror. Dreamlike, strange and quite unpredictable.

http://i2.listal.com/image/1122254/600full-marebito-screenshot.jpg

Holy shit, must see The Devil's Daughter!!

I was pleased that Watcher in the Woods was on there. It was My First Horror Movie!

xxp - The international title, A Stranger from Afar, gives a pretty good idea of the film's themes and tone, plus sounds very much like something Lovecraft or one of his contemporaries might have written.

watched Repulsion (finally) last night. awesome. was this controversial/a big deal when it was released? It seems several steps beyond Psycho, which was just a few years earlier.

I was pleased that Watcher in the Woods was on there. It was My First Horror Movie!.

yeah, I nommed it cuz it was one of my first, too. loved it at the time, though i haven't seen it in forever.

LL, The Pit is on the nomination list and a certain person you live with wasn't even involved in the process.

See, I knew you all would take care of me.

Another film I really want to go to bat for here is Dementia, aka Daughter of Horror. One of the most remarkable films I've ever seen, an hour-long, dialogue-free, first-person Freudian head trip from 1955 that follows a frightened and disturbed young woman down a rabbit hole of her own making. It's similar in many ways to Polanski's Repulsion, dealing as it does with sexual psychosis, and also to the films of David Lynch, especially Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. It's hard to believe, in fact, that Lynch and Polanski didn't crib heavily from it. The soundtrack is gorgeous, and the stylized, deliberately artificial imagery recalls German expressionist filmmakers like Weine and Murnau. It's scary, brave, campy, arguably feminist and deliriously surreal. Hard to believe that it was made five years before Hitchcock's Psycho. Would make my top 10 list even if this poll wasn't limited to horror films.

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holy crap will watch!

wow great stills

thx

not quite horror but I would recommend Suddenly Last Summer for the atmosphere/sense of terror as well

one of the charms of marebito is that shimizu shot it in 8 days and basically was using it as a palate cleanser between ju-on and the usa grudge, which obv doesnt add merit to the film inherently but does make the result kind of amazing. it def doesnt feel like a speed run film at all.

Re Watcher in the Woods, it was an earlyish scary movie for me, too -- I guess I was 10 or so. Remember it being spooky but not much else about it. The movie that did scare the living hell out of me at that age (or maybe a year earlier?) was the Body Snatchers remake, which is definitely going on my ballot. I think I literally didn't sleep for a few nights afterward. (Actually, the original Body Snatchers might make the ballot, too.)

I still feel the terror when I see Mitch McConnell

http://images.politico.com/global/news/100913_mitch_mcconnell_ap_328.jpg

Dementia / Daughter Of Horror seconded, the DVD I have actually has 2 versions, one with narration and one (the original I think) without.

Weird retro art horror fans, check out Jigoku! It's very strange.

http://nicolasheller.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/jigoku-screenshot-15.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews24/a%20jigoku%20criterion%20dvd/a%20jogoku%20JIGOKU-19.jpg
http://subwaycinemanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Jigoku1-759562.jpg

http://srv14.movie-list.net/sexmaniac/img/jigoku2.jpg

yeah jigoku is rad. dementia's been on my to-watch list for years.

putting together my ballot is reconfirming my love of downbeat 70s b-movies: let's scare jessica to death, shock waves, shivers, homebodies, lemora, messiah of evil, deathdream, the other. try to creep me out while employing glacial pacing, a burbling electronic score, and lots of film grain, apparently I will love you forever.

in some weird way I consider the evil dead to be part of this tradition except everything's turned up to 11.

one of the charms of marebito is that shimizu shot it in 8 days and basically was using it as a palate cleanser between ju-on and the usa grudge, which obv doesnt add merit to the film inherently but does make the result kind of amazing. it def doesnt feel like a speed run film at all.

― Badu and a sax run hand-in-hand (jjjusten), Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:05 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does and doesn't, imo. I'm not surprised that it was shot in a hurry, but it never feels rushed or thrown together. It often has a distinctly improvisational feel, like I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Shimizu just told Tsuakamoto to react silently to situations and characters about which he knew little in advance. I love how fragmentary and loosely connected it all is, though nothing feels unfinished or unanswered in the end.

Obviously this is Eric's and Pillbox's call, but my own feeling on stills: atmospheric/moody rather than bloody corpses/exploding heads. I know many would strongly disagree.

― clemenza, Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know, I think the stills should either be representative or intriguing images, and I imagine there'll be a fair few placers that would need bloody corpses/exploding heads to fulfil the 'representative requirement'.

Also, crap, Dementia is going on my to-watch list.

I want to strongly campaign for 964 Pinocchio but I know next to no one has seen it :'(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHlSJIw99o

Also am ashamed w/ how many films on this list I haven't even seen (Jigoku, Kwaidan, Onibaba, The Thing, Phantasm, etc...)

more ppl have seen pinocchio 764 than you think, ilxors have repped for it before. don't think rubber's lover was nommed.

Wd also rep for Lord of Illusions but everyone seems to hate that one too